[HN Gopher] Saving Instagram images automatically every hour wit...
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       Saving Instagram images automatically every hour with Node.js or
       PHP
        
       Author : orsifrancesco
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-04-20 22:07 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
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       | sourcecodeplz wrote:
       | Thanks for this. I'm on mobile but how does it work? I see your
       | service there, do you use proxies or have access to the API?
        
       | pmarreck wrote:
       | The inability to save images from the mobile app without
       | screenshotting (talk about a perverse incentive) is one of the
       | reasons I hate IG
        
         | EthicalSimilar wrote:
         | This is why you sideload :)
        
         | penjelly wrote:
         | i wrote a script that rips IG bookmarked images into a Google
         | photo album because IG was the only place to find cool images.
         | last time i checked it was still working.
         | https://github.com/mcpengelly/instagram-saved-to-google-phot...
        
         | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
         | Why the hell do these newfang apps not have video controls? Why
         | isn't there a switch to turn off audio by default?
         | 
         | I don't use ig,tiktok, snap but people around me do and its
         | very annoying.
        
         | yamtaddle wrote:
         | Giphy. It drives me absolutely batshit crazy. I wish image-
         | search sites (looking at you, Google Image Search) wouldn't
         | index images served by sites that make it so very hard to _get
         | the actual image_. See also: Pinterest.
        
           | robotnikman wrote:
           | Half the time with google image search, when you visit the
           | site to view the image it isn't even on the site at all!
           | 
           | I stumbled upon this userscript which adds the view image
           | button back, seems to work so far https://gist.github.com/ner
           | 00/ec9ae47e202b8e99f19be44a5af6ba...
        
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